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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 13, Passage 3

The library that was never quite there

Questions 27–40 of Reading Test 13. Do it online and every answer is marked the moment you finish, with your band score and the exact line of the passage each answer came from.

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Where are the answers to “The library that was never quite there”?

Do the passage here and every answer is marked the moment you finish — the correct answer beside each one you got wrong, your raw score out of 14, and your band. It takes about 20 minutes. Vertex does not post a bare list of answers, because a list tells you nothing about why you missed a question, which is the only part that changes your score.

How many questions is it?

Questions 27–40 — 14 questions, in these types: MCQ one answer, Matching headings, Summary completion (no bank), YNNG.

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How the passage begins

For most of the past two centuries, the destruction of the Library of Alexandria has been one of the great set-pieces of Western historical imagination. The story, as it descended through generations of textbooks, was straightforward and almost theatrical: founded by the early Ptolemaic kings…

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